There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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